My Cape Nature experience!!

As someone who isn’t really from Cape Town the first time experience was too phenomenal so much so that putting my experience in words would do it much justice. The way there was too great as I was in a bus full of my class mates, peers, facilitators and best of all friends, I smile as I continue typing this reflection. The road trip was too much for words that bonding session among friends was certainly needed, and I know for a fact I am not speaking for myself. I got to see around Cape Town the beautiful landscapes of the South Western part of the country the view was breath taking. My favourite moment was seeing a beautiful water fall as we drove past this mountain as tall luscious trees unmasked the water falls beauty.

Then we finally got to the nature reserve we were briefed on how to behave funnily enough it was done for the third time, one would swear a bunch of zoo animals were being taken out on a field trip. As we got off the bus we got to mingle with the rest of the Life Science 151 students. The first place we went to, something like an outdoor museum where there were beautiful rocks and traces of animals that were found in and around that area. My friends and I then decided to have a ‘girl moment’ in the bathroom that ended up taking a bit longer than expected ,only to realise everyone had left and we were the last ones there, like every friendship there is always that one friend that frantically panics when something goes off track, and that mate of mine is the lovely Shakora Sedick who happens to be a natural borne time keeper and, also whips us into shape from time to time.

 We got to the bus everyone had been waiting for us, worried sick!!Feeling special, important and cared for we drove off to our next destination in excitement. We got to the nature reserve and the weather seemed to be getting all gloomy but that was the least of things to get our mood and excitement down! We got to the Cape Point Nature
 

Reserve and it was so windy, we got blown over from time to time. Then we had to walk up this super steep hill and I was surely not prepared for the level of fitness that hill wanted from us, I was sooooo out of breathe that taking pictures of my friends and I was a distant thought .I don’t know how many pit stops I begged for, just to rest. My face was over heating and my thighs were burning utter and sheer death, I even regretted having the scrumptious dinner I sank my teeth in and devoured. But my friends were there loyalty and motivation in my pocket they cheered me on the whole way the best was when Mango who is somewhat like a brother to me,took me by the hand and walked with me as I was contemplating giving up and going back to the bus that was truly like a brotherly and sister moment right there 

When we got to the top that feeling of achievement and accomplishment was super filling. Then photographs were taken galore when we got there, if I could I would have camped out there. Experience was far too extraordinary.

My Looooooove For LFS151

My experience in life science 151 

Life Science has become an AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWSOME experience, where I have had an opportunity to learn in a lot col ways like from friends, peers, tutors and practical’s. In my experiences as a first year in Life Science I have been introduced to a variety of work to aid me in the scientific world I will be working in as an adult.

My LFS short for life science lessons come in lectures, tuts and practical’s. In our lectures we have the entertaining Maryke Meerkotter Malan, who prepares us for the lesson and chapter. Then in our tuts, where there is a smaller group of my peers and we get handed out work to do and it is either done individually or as a group discussion where a tutor mediates and sometimes we get quizzes, motivating us to thoroughly go through the next chapter or we will fail the tut.In our practical’s things get practical haha ….excuse the pun, we get to dress up in our lab coats, go to a lab and use microscopes to observe different kinds of specimen, in our prac’s this is where I feel like a real scientist as all of the work we do is done to the TEE, as some would say perfectly!

I have met A LOT of nice people in the programme I mean in people I see myself growing old with as colleagues and friends. These people are there when we preparing for a HUUUUUUUUUGE test and you too confused to think clearly, you know they are just a text or phone call away to explain if they not as muffled as you are!

I have learnt about the most famous scientist to ever exist and I aspire to become like them as they are the science worlds role models. I have learnt about things that occur all around us in detail compared to the random walking past me observing the everyday phenomena with me making me firstly super cool, but more importantly making me more knowledgeable about things happening in nature and broadening my knowledge of the world to help other people in future! Soooo I am so for the lifescience 151 programme words cannot even come close to expressing how important to an aspiring scientist’s future!!